12/24/2022 0 Comments Moondrop aria vs starfieldThis KXXS was kindly provided by Linsoul (currently not carrying Moondrop products). It was a good IEM that I would recommend, but just like every chifi hype train out there, it was pretty far from the claims that many reviewers bestowed upon it.įor non-audio opinions, refer to my unboxing post It was a decent $180 IEM that you could get for $150 often, and certainly outperformed many other similarly-priced chifi IEMs at the time. I wouldn’t make that argument myself as my criteria for Harman-neutrality is rather high, but given Moondrop’s reputation as the Harman-target-hitter and the parrotings of many reviewers over the course of the Kanas Pro’s lifetime, it’s hard to argue against this general consensus.Ĭontrary to the hype at the time, I wouldn’t consider the Kanas Pro as anything revolutionary in terms of technology or price-to-performance value. I would consider the signature of the Kanas Pro to be a “well-tuned chifi V-shape”, though you could make the argument that it is close enough to the Harman target to be considered as Harman-neutral. Īrguably the IEM that put Moondrop on the audiophile map, the Kanas Pro was the bassier of the two Kanas models and first of the “over-ear metal-build dynamic-driver” series of Moondrop IEMs. This Kanas Pro was kindly provided by Shenzhenaudio. And with the two being so similar, it’s no surprise that the community got a little confused on the reason for the Starfield’s existence.Īnd so to kill three birds with one stone, here’s a three-way shootout of Moondrop’s most iconic IEMs: the Kanas Pro, KXXS, and Starfield. I have put off the Kanas Pro and KXXS review for a while, but that seems like it was a good move given the release of the Starfields: an IEM built pretty much identically to the KXXS except in a purple-blue paintjob and a thematically-coherent blue cable. The midfi trifecta, however, is distinguished by their over-the-ear fit and primarily-metal build, aimed squarely at the sub-$200 audiophile crowd. It’s important to specify the term “midfi” here as Moondrop also sells (or have sold) two budget DDs IEMs, namely the discontinued Crescent and its replacement, the Spaceship. The history of the company Moondrop is surprisingly rich given the recency of its gained popularity, from its early reputation as a premier earbud manufacturer to the topic of today’s review: the “midfi Moondrop dynamics”.
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